FRENCH POWER.
| Men. | Horses. | |||
| The French, having received some reinforcements of conscripts, amounted, in the beginning of July, including the king’s guards, to about | 275,000 | |||
| In hospital | 61,000 | } | 68,000 | |
| Stragglers and prisoners borne on the states | 7,000 | } | ||
| ——— | ||||
| Total under arms | 207,000 | 36,000 | ||
| The military governments, lines of correspondence, garrisons, and detachments, absorbed | 32,000 | 3,000 | ||
| ——— | ——— | |||
| Present under arms with the corps d’armée | 175,000 | 33,000 | ||
Muster roll of the French Army, MSS.
The actual strength and situation of each corps d’armée was as follows:—
In addition to these corps there were twelve hundred men belonging to the battering train, four thousand infantry under Bonnet, at St. Andero, and two thousand two hundred cavalry under Kellerman, in the Valladolid country.
The fortresses and armed places in possession of the French army were—St. Sebastian, Pampeluna, Bilbao, Santona, St. Andero, Burgos, Leon, Astorga, on the northern line;
Jacca, Zaragoza, Guadalaxara, Toledo, Segovia, and Zamora, on the central line;
Figueras, Rosas, and Barcelona, on the southern line.
It needs but a glance at these dispositions and numbers to understand with what a power Napoleon had fastened upon the Peninsula, during his six weeks’ campaign. Much had been lost since his departure, but his army still pressed the Spaniards down, and, like a stone cast upon a brood of snakes, was immoveable to their writhings. Nevertheless, the situation of Spain, at this epoch, was an ameliorated one compared to that which, four months before, the vehemence of Napoleon’s personal warfare had reduced it to. The elements of resistance were again accumulated in masses, and the hope, or rather confidence, of success was again in full vigour; for, it was in the character of this people, while grovelling on the earth, to suppose themselves standing firm; and, when creeping in the gloom of defeat, to imagine they were soaring in the full blaze of victory.